Town halls in Greater Manchester are spending more than £10m a year teaching immigrants to speak English. The Department for Schools says a growing amount of taxpayers’ money being spent on teaching English as a second language – particularly in Manchester, Oldham and Rochdale. In Manchester, the annual amount spent on teaching English as a foreign language has increased in nine years from £3m to £4.6m.

In Oldham, with its high ethnic population, the cost is now £2.1m. In Rochdale it is £1.2m. Manchester’s £4.6m bill, paid by the taxpayer, is one of the country’s highest – but dwarfed by Birmingham’s £14m a year.

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